Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] himself [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 2 | However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact . |
| 3 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 4 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 5 | After a sideways hack , played left-handed , a poor shot into a greenside bunker and two putts , Harley had effectively played himself out of contention . |
| 6 | He had bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard , and had apparently finished himself off by taking cyanide , a method of suicide used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas . |
| 7 | He had already put himself out by agreeing to see Dougal at such short notice . |
| 8 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
| 9 | My Lord that is in dispute , it is in dispute firstly that in fact as a matter of fact , Mr had ever held himself out to be an experienced man er of business , that Peter believed him to be as such , er and in any event , even if he was to seem as such it is the plaintiff 's case that there was still a duty upon the solicitor in that situation . |
| 10 | Denis did n't remember what happened to the bowler hat after the old man had laboured to haul himself up into the cart and , in response to a wave of the gun , had carefully stretched himself out on its messy floor . |
| 11 | He had assured Lucille that he fought only because his pension would be jeopardized if he refused , but in truth he had wanted to know whether the old skills were still there or whether , like a cannon fired too fast and too often , he had simply worn himself out as a soldier . |